Genesis 32:30 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: Jacob, I, Esau, it, thou, thy · What happens: ask, say, tell, pray, be, bless · To what, where: Esau, name, me, thee, Jacob · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Genesis 32:30 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Jacob, I, Esau, it, thou, thy — and what happens in the verse to Esau, name, me, thee, Jacob, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיִּשְׁאַ֣ל יַעֲקֹ֗ב וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הַגִּֽידָה־נָּ֣א שְׁמֶ֔ךָ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה תִּשְׁאַ֣ל לִשְׁמִ֑י וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ אֹת֖וֹ שָֽׁם׃

And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יִּשְׁאַ֣ל	cc	and
2	יִּשְׁאַ֣ל	שָׁאַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he asked
3	יַעֲקֹ֗ב	יַעֲקֹב	PROPN	_	2 יִּשְׁאַ֣ל	nsubj	Jacob
4	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	5 יֹּ֙אמֶר֙	cc	and
5	יֹּ֙אמֶר֙	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּשְׁאַ֣ל	conj	he said
6	הַגִּֽיד	נָגַד	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=2	5 יֹּ֙אמֶר֙	ccomp	tell
7	ָה־	ה	X	_	6 הַגִּֽיד	nmod
8	נָּ֣א	נָא	INTJ	_	6 הַגִּֽיד	discourse	please
9	שְׁמ	שֵׁם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 הַגִּֽיד	obj	name
10	ֶ֔ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 שְׁמ	nmod:poss	your
11	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 יֹּ֕אמֶר	cc	and
12	יֹּ֕אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּשְׁאַ֣ל	conj	he said
13	לָ֥	לָמָה	ADP	_	14 מָּה	case
14	מָּה	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	12 יֹּ֕אמֶר	ccomp	why?
15	זֶּ֖ה	זֶה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 מָּה	nsubj	this
16	תִּשְׁאַ֣ל	שָׁאַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	15 זֶּ֖ה	acl	do you ask
17	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	18 שְׁמ	case	to
18	שְׁמ	שֵׁם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 תִּשְׁאַ֣ל	obl	name
19	ִ֑י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 שְׁמ	nmod:poss	my
20	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 יְבָ֥רֶךְ	cc	and
21	יְבָ֥רֶךְ	בָּרַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּשְׁאַ֣ל	conj	he blessed
22	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	23 ֖וֹ	case
23	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 יְבָ֥רֶךְ	obj	him
24	שָֽׁם	שָׁם	ADV	_	21 יְבָ֥רֶךְ	advmod	there
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	24 שָֽׁם	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
hedged: yes (נָא)
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּשְׁאַל he asked	wayyiqtol · qal	יַעֲקֹב Jacob
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal	יַעֲקֹב Jacob
הַגִּֽיד tell	imperative · hiphil	שְׁמ name
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal
תִּשְׁאַל do you ask	yiqtol · qal	יַעֲקֹב Jacob
יְבָרֶךְ he blessed	wayyiqtol · piel		וֹ him

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Onkelos

וּשְׁאֵל יַעֲקֹב וַאֲמַר חַוִּי כְעַן שְׁמָךְ וַאֲמַר לְמָה דְנַן אַתְּ שָׁאֵל לִשְׁמִי וּבָרִיךְ יָתֵהּ תַּמָּן

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:GEN:957.

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